Sidney L. Shaw
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996
Postdoctoral and Research Fellow, Stanford University, 2005
Research
Microtubule dynamics and cellular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis .
Representative Publications
Rania Rizk, Kevin Bohannon, Laura Wetzel, James Powers, Sidney Shaw, and Claire Walczak. 2009 MCAK and Paclitaxel Have Differential Effects on Spindle Microtubule Organization and Dynamics. Molecular Biology of the Cell (in Press).
Jessica Lucas and Sidney L. Shaw. 2008 Microtubule organization in the Arabidopsis seedling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 11(1):94-98.
E. D. Salmon, Sidney L. Shaw, Jennifer Waters, Clare M. Waterman-Storer, Paul Maddox, Elaine Yeh, and Kerry Bloom. 2007. A high-resolution multimode digital microscope system. Methods in Cell Biology 81:187-218. Academic Press, New York.
Sidney L. Shaw and Claire Walczak (2007) News and Views: Spindles One Speckle at a Time. Nature Cell Biology 9:1223-1224.
Jacques Dumais, Sidney L. Shaw, Charles R. Steele, Sharon R. Long and Peter M. Ray. 2006 An anisotropic-viscoplastic model of plant cell morphogenesis by tip growth. International Journal of Developmental Biology 50: 209-222.
David Ehrhardt and Sidney L. Shaw. 2006. Microtubule Dynamics and Organization in the Plant Cortical array. Annual Reviews in Plant Molecular Biology 57:859-875.
Sidney L. Shaw. 2006. Imaging and the live plant cell. Plant Journal 45:573-598.
Jacques Dumais, Sharon R. Long, Sidney L. Shaw. 2004. The mechanics of surface expansion anisotropy in Medicago truncatula root hairs. Plant Physiology 136(2):3266-3275.
Raka Mitra, Sidney L. Shaw, Sharon Long. 2004. Six non-nodulating plant mutants defective for Nod factor-induced transcriptional changes associated with the legume-rhizobia symbiosis. PNAS 101(27):10217-10222.
Sidney L. Shaw, Roheena Kamyar and David W. Ehrhardt. 2003. Sustained microtubule treadmilling in Arabidopsis cortical arrays. Science 300(5626):1715-1718.
